{"id":29813,"date":"2018-01-17T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29813"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:51:30","slug":"self-reflection-at-the-twilight-of-u-s-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29813","title":{"rendered":"Self-Reflection at the Twilight of U.S. Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self-Reflection at the Twilight of U.S. Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There is a true law, a right reason, conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil. Whether it enjoins or forbids, the good respect its injunctions, and the wicked treat them with indifference.\u00a0This law cannot be contradicted by any other law, and is not liable either to derogation or abrogation. Neither the senate nor the people can give us any dispensation for not obeying this universal law of justice. It needs no other expositor and interpreter than our own\u00a0conscience.\u00a0It is not one thing at Rome and another at Athens; one thing today and another tomorrow; but in all times and nations this universal law must for ever reign, eternal and imperishable. It is the sovereign master and emperor of all beings. God himself is its author,\u2014its promulgator,\u2014its enforcer.\u00a0He who obeys it not, flies from himself, and does violence to the very nature of man. For his crime he must endure the severest penalties hereafter, even if he avoid the usual misfortunes of the present life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/p>\n

American influence abroad, as defined by the power and status of the U.S. empire, has been in consistent decline for nearly two decades now. Indeed, when the history books are written it\u2019ll be clear that the dotcom boom and bust at the end of the 20th century marked the peak of U.S. imperial strength. Shortly after that bubble burst our nation was faced with the brutal and traumatizing 9\/11 attacks, and the overreaction to this event unleashed a mass insanity across the American public from which we have never recovered.<\/p>\n

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